README.md

Yowsup 2

Updates (December 30, 2017)

Yowsup opened WhatsApp service under platforms!

Yowsup is a Python library that enables you to build applications which use the WhatsApp service. Yowsup has been used to create two clients: 1) An unofficial WhatsApp client Nokia N9 through the Wazapp project which was in use by more than 200K users; 2) Another fully featured unofficial client for Blackberry 10.

Linux

You need to have installed Python headers (probably from python-dev package) and ncurses-dev, then run

python setup.py install

Because of a bug with python-dateutil package you might get permission error for some dateutil file called requires.txt when you use yowsup (see this bug report) to fix you'll need to chmod 644 that file.

FreeBSD (*BSD)

You need to have installed: py27-pip-7.1.2(+), py27-sqlite3-2.7.11_7(+), then run

pip install yowsup2

Mac

python setup.py install

Administrators privileges might be required, if so then run with 'sudo'